FilaBrasileiro on 07 October 2008
| KBG29 said: Blu-ray is fine, and well. This holiday is going to be huge for Blu and next year retail will start making the push towards a new Blu standard. I live in the Seattle area of Washington State, and around here all Best Buys, Circuit Cities, Video Onlys, Fred Myers, Walmarts, and Targets have laready switched to exclusivly LCD TVs. The only place I have come across a SDTV was at a K-mart while I took my little sister school shopping. I know that this may not be the case all across the US right now, as places in the mid west do not pay enough for this to be possible. In the very near future I am sure this will be the case all across the US. This will mean every new TV perchased is an HDTV. Now this moves us onto why Blu-ray is and will be fine. Retailers make next to nothing on SDTVs, and that is why it is almost imposible to pick one up some places right now. The same is true for DVD, and DVD players. This holiday Retail will be promoting Blu-ray as the must have adult electronic for this holiday and beyond. It is the first christmas were this is a no questions asked game, Blu is the only way to go. Every electronics company with a Blu-ray player on the market is going to be thowing out major discouts or freebees for people interested in Blu. Once we get though this holiday Retail will start doing their part to slowly cut off the oxygen for DVD. Their is only so much floor space at retail, and they want profit makers in that space, so as the year progresses DVD sections will start to become Blu-ray sections. By this time next year it will be very close to if not more than 50/50 for floor space. As much of a threat as this is to DVD, it is not the only thing going after the space. In the next 12 months the US is going to see major increases in internet speeds. The Xbox 360, PS3, LG Blu-ray players, and Sony Blu-ray Players are all going to be able to stream compressed 720p movies through either netfilx or PSN. This adds another huge advantage for consumers looking to make the jump. We may not be close to the point were puchasing and storing full HD movies is possible, but renting near HD quilty movies is within reach for a majority of the US. This is the next format in which movies will be consumed. A hybrid between pure data rentals, and physical purchases is the path the only feasible path, and CE companies, and retail are going to make this progression happen, everyone is welcome to jion in. Either by choice or, if you wait about 7 years, by having no other options. |
I hope you're right, I'd love to have a monthly subscription fee to PSN and be able to download HD movies in a timely manner, as it is right now, that's not feasible.
